Full Coverage: Bangladesh

23.07.2006 Stateless for more than 20 years and the victims of systematic human rights violations in Burma, the Rohingya people have sought refuge in nearby Bangladesh, but that country has become increasingly unwilling to harbor them, fearing an influx for which they are unprepared.

12.07.2006 Bangladesh's Prime Minister Khaleda Zia called for strengthening the health sector programmes by effectively involving the young in the activities for quick achievement of the desired goals.

12.07.2006 Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and Cleantech Limited, a private organisation will together set up 50 mobile public toilets in different spots in the city by the end of this month.

11.07.2006 Outgoing United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Bangladesh representative Suneeta Mukharjee, who has stayed here five and a half years, expressed her highest job satisfaction in discharging her duties in Bangladesh and sang the country's praises for success in overall population sector.

10.07.2006 Bangladeshi medical and legal experts have expressed frustration over the rejection of a lawsuit worth millions of pounds in compensation to victims of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh.

06.07.2006 The digital divide has a female face. This is very true as evident from women's underrepresentation and lack of willingness in the sphere of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

04.07.2006 In the words of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, health, like education, is among the basic necessities that gives value to human life.However, it has been found that the cost of healthcare itself can be a cause of poverty in low-income countries.Studies have shown that, of all the risks that poor households are facing, health risks probably pose the greatest threat to their lives and livelihoods.